[Distutils] Compiling with Pyrex

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:33 AM 12/22/2008 +0000, devel at jonasmelian.com wrote:
>When I use the next command in my home system:
>
>   $ python setup.py develop
>
>Pyrex compiles the '.pyx' file without any problem. But after of
>uploading it to Pypi, and when is installed via 'easy_install' it
>doesn't builds any more. (I had to upload the '.c' file compiled on my
>system)
>
>You can see here how has been configured:
>http://www.bitbucket.org/ares/bcryptwrap/src/tip/setup.py
>
>and here where I had to add any files:
>http://www.bitbucket.org/ares/bcryptwrap/src/tip/MANIFEST.in
>
>
>Note that in the last verion in Pypi I've only one of the next sentences
>but I had both ones in anterior revisions.
>
>   setup_requires='Pyrex',
>   install_requires='Pyrex',
>
>It download and install Pyrex before of my package, but Pyrex doesn't
>compile the file.

The setup_requires is the only one required; however, setuptools is 
checking for Pyrex's presence *before* it's available on sys.path.  I 
don't know of any way to work around this, except to include 
pre-built .c files in your distribution.